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Florists in Battle Creek, NE
Find local Battle Creek, Nebraska florists below that deliver beautiful flowers to residences, business, funeral homes and hospitals in Battle Creek and surrounding areas. Choose from roses, lilies, tulips, orchids, carnations and more from the variety of flower arrangements in a vase, container or basket. Place your flower delivery order online of call.
Battle Creek Flower Shops
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Lessons learned: A florist shares how she stays connected to customers during COVID-19 - Battle Creek Enquirer
Elisha Hodge, guest writer
Battle Creek EnquirerThe pandemic created many challenges for Plumeria.Stay-at-home orders affecting our ability to have staff. Closing the storefront, which drastically decreased walk-in business. Supply chain interruptions limiting our ability to get the products we rely on to conduct business.We decided to identify what we were able to do and what resources we could find to create solutions. We had to scour the planet to find temporary alternative sources for many of the flowers, plants and gifts that we normally stock. The staff assisted from home, making connections to new vendors and brainstorming new ideas to stay relevant while we were closed. We felt what mattered most was to stay connected with our amazing customers.We started Facebook Live videos. Our audience could purchase flower kits, we would ship, and they would make flowers virtually. This helped give people who were stuck at home a chance to feel connected. We provided safe activities that stretched beyond the walls o... Oct 10, 2019
Van Being Loaded with Funeral Flowers Briefly Stolen from Battle Creek Business - wbckfm.com
A van that was being loaded with flowers for a funeral was briefly stolen earlier this week.Battle Creek police say it happened at Horrock’s on Capital Avenue downtown Tuesday morning at around 10:00 am. Witnesses observed a man enter the vehicle and drive away. Shortly later, police located the van near Capital and Columbia Avenues. A 52-year-old man from Kalamazoo was arrested on charges of auto theft.Just a day earlier in an unrelated incident, police in Battle Creek were called to investigate a truck that had been stolen from a business. The Battle Creek Enquirer reports that around 12:40 early Monday morning, two employees at Battle Creek Glass noticed the vehicle missing from the parking lot.A police officer later spotted the truck abandoned on Thorne Street near West Michigan Avenue. A 50-year-old man was arrested after trying to run away from the scene. Some tools that were inside, valued at about $3,000, had been stolen. The suspect told police he hid the tools at the Fort Custer Recreation area and they were later recovered. The man told officers he wanted to sell... Mar 15, 2019
Bacon roses? Plumeria Botanical Boutique has a meaty take on Valentine's Day - Battle Creek Enquirer
Battle Creek Enquirer
Published 5:40 PM EST Feb 8, 2019
Everyone knows what happens on Valentine's Day-red roses, chocolate, candlelit dinner.
But Plumeria Botanical Boutique in Battle Creek is hoping to up the flower game with bouquets of bacon roses.
Customers can also order The Dirty Dozen, a bouquet of six bacon ros... Dec 14, 2018
Albion opens downtown holiday pop-up shop to remind people what it's like to shop downtown - Battle Creek Enquirer
Battle Creek Enquirer
Published 5:58 PM EST Dec 10, 2018
The Albion Reinvestment Corporation and the store Pure Albion are sponsoring a holiday pop-up shop in the city's downtown.
Collective Goods is open at 111 South Superior St. until Dec. 22, on Tuesdays from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Sat... Oct 26, 2018
Swonk's Flower Shop, downtown for 91 years, will close Saturday
Battle Creek Enquirer
Published 4:08 PM EDT Oct 25, 2018
After almost a century of business, Swonk's Flower Shop is closing its doors on Saturday.
The downtown florist, which can be found a short distance from Horrocks Farm Market at 84 Goguac St., was opened in 1927 by Molly Simonds and her husband, Charlie Swonk.
The current owners, Jeanette and Jim Schmid, took over the store in 200... Apr 20, 2018
Take a Michigan day trip over spring break
Want to take a short road trip with the kids over spring break? Here are some ideas for destinations that are all less than two hours away from Battle Creek.KALAMAZOOTake your little spies-in-training to the Kalamazoo Valley Museum for Top Secret: License to Spy. The interactive exhibit has kids solving puzzles and using technology. The museum is also hosting an exhibit of art from Little Golden Books. Spring break activities include a fairy tale craft with a twist from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. April 2 to 6. PRICE: Free. HOURS: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays to Saturdays; 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays. ADDRESS: 230 N. Rose St., Kalamazoo. WEBSITE: kvm.kvcc.eduSuper kids might be interested in the My Hero exhibit at the Kalamazoo Valley Institute for the Arts. After all, who doesn’t want to see what the Avengers look like as cats? Afterward, you could always swing by the Fanfare comic book store at 4415 S. Westnedge Ave. PRICE: $5 adults, $2 students with ID, free for ages 12 and younger. HOURS: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays; noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. ADDRESS: 435 W. South St., Kalamazoo. WEBSITE: www.kiarts.orgThe Studio Grill is a popular family restaurant in downtown Kalamazoo, ...


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A growing number of people persist in asserting that Google is dying. Believe what they say, Google’s search results are said to be increasingly riddled with paid advertisements, and successful spam websites are increasingly getting higher in search results by outwitting the company’s algorithms. The end result would be Google Search slowly deteriorating, becoming less useful and more boring.
Google’s search results would be less and less reliable
In the early 2000s, Google quickly caught on with people because of how easily it could index any website anywhere in the world. This online search tool provided access to everything a person could want from the Internet. For some, the words “Internet” and “Google” were confused, while for others they were one and the same. At that time, the company was very successful and grew rapidly within a few years. Even today, for ordinary mortals, the Internet revolves around a simple word: “Google”.
However, some insiders believe that Google is not really what it used to be, its advertising management greatly influencing search results to the great barrage of Internet users. Google’s results would be increasingly “refined” to answer 80% of the most popular requests, while becoming much worse for technical or complex requests. Once you get past the first or second page, the results are even worse, with pages completely unrelated to the query (for example, they don’t even contain the search phrases), said one of the reviewers of the search engine.
They’re probably testing or have already implemented some sort of multi-armed bandit type optimization, like for YouTube’s search results, or they’re just showing all popular pages (disregarding relevance ) to see if they result in a click, he added. Others believe that in 2000 Google became popular because hackers realized it was better than Lycos (a search engine launched in 1994) or Excite (a collection of Web sites and services, launched in 1995). But due to these problems, users would use Google less and less.
A recent minor medical issue has highlighted just how badly someone has to mess with Google Search. Google no longer produces high-quality search results in a significant number of important categories. Health, product reviews and recipes are three categories I searched today and where the first results showed “clickbait” type sites (“putaclic” or “freelance clicks”) riddled with advertisements rotten. I’m sure there are many more, a January Twitter review from Michael Seibel, Partner at Y Combinator and Managing Director of YC Early Stage.
Advertising and SEO would be Google’s main problems
According to critics, Google’s algorithms are dying due to advertising, spam, SEO (search engine optimization) and AI. Dmitri Kyle Brereton, software engineer and writer, says “it’s obvious that ad serving creates misaligned incentives for search engines. Google’s founders themselves would have pointed this out early in their business. “. In 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page reportedly said: Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising.
The goals of the advertising business model do not always align with providing quality search to users. We expect financial search engines through advertising to be inherently biased in favor of advertisers and away from consumer needs. Additionally, advertising revenue often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results. According to critics, these reflections on the failings of financial search engines through advertising read like an instruction manual for what Google did next.
Page and Brin began selling ads alongside their search results in the early 2000s, and Google’s advertising business has grown steadily ever since. Ads served on Google’s network – which includes YouTube and ad placements on third-party sites – would net the company a staggering $54 billion in the first quarter of 2022. It could bring in as much as $180 billion. dollars in the year 2022. They have recently pushed the envelope to the limit in order to extract every penny before their inevitable collapse, Brereton said.
Reviews of the quality and relevance of search results have increased dramatically in recent months. However, a Google spokesperson argued this year that “the quality of Google Search has improved significantly over time.” Every year, we make thousands of Google improvements, and our testing gives us clear evidence that these changes are truly becoming the best search for people. Over the past seven years, we’ve reduced irrelevant results by more than 50%, the spokesperson said.
As for SEO, critics including Brereton claim that there are thousands of people whose only job is to mess with algorithms to get to the top of a Google results page. It should therefore come as no surprise that the quality of search results has deteriorated. To be honest, this problem would probably arise with any search engine, but one would expect Google to be able to come up with an algorithm that is less manipulable,” Brereton wrote in a blog post last February. .
Finally, as Google tries to make its search engine “smarter” with artificial intelligence, critics accuse AI of skewing search results. Increasingly, Google isn’t giving you results that match what you typed. It tries to be smart and understand what you “really meant”, plus personalize things for you. If you really meant to say exactly what you typed, then it’s game over. Even the exact match (” “) search operator no longer gives an exact match, which is quite bizarre, Brereton said.
suggesting potential Google alternatives, Brereton claims that Bing and DuckDuckGo will prevent many similar problems to Google, such as algorithm-related spam and ads. According to him, the most interesting new alternatives are the sites Neeva, Brave and You.com. Brave recently ditched Google’s search engine in favor of its own search engine.
However, critics felt that Google’s stranglehold on the search market makes it difficult for a competitor to emerge. The alternative can’t just be twice as good, it has to be so much better that it’s worth switching sites, suggests Brereton.
Sources: Dmitri Kyle Brereton, examples of biased Google results found in Norway
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Do you think Google search is deteriorating?
What do you think of Google’s problems raised by Internet users?
Have you identified any other problems that Google’s search engine does not suffer from?
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Are you a Hispanic entrepreneur, a minority business owner or small business owner looking to do business with Broward County?
The Office of Small Business and Economic Development will be offering workshops in both Spanish and English.
Although all workshops will be delivered in English, the development office will be presenting a Spanish version of its popular workshop “Doing Business with Broward County” from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. on Thursday. The free workshops will be held virtually.
This variety of workshops all serve one purpose: to provide knowledge and show small business owners how to do business with Broward County. The workshops are designed for business owners and entrepreneurs who are interested in exploring opportunities with Broward County and don’t know where to start.
Participants will receive tips and information on how to successfully navigate county government processes, such as vendor registration and Broward’s small business programs.
“Our office has made progress in our efforts to continually respond to the needs of the entire business community, which has become all the more critical during the COVID-19 pandemic when many businesses are faced with difficult decisions,” said Sandy-Michael McDonald, director of the office.
“This new virtual workshop in Spanish is the result of community feedback and we hope it will provide attendees with the basic information necessary to position their businesses and maximize the county’s available opportunities.”
Presented by Assistant Director Maribel Feliciano, the Thursday workshop in Spanish will address multiple topics for success, including eligibility requirements for certification.
“About a third of the businesses certified as small businesses in Broward are Hispanic businesses. And we want to invite the Latino community, our Latino businesses, to participate in this workshop to learn how to become certified with Broward County,” Feliciano said.
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Broward County has many construction projects, at the port, at the airport, Feliciano said. “Also in the Convention Center we have an expansion project and we are building a hotel and that project is estimated at a billion dollars. And 30 percent of that project is reserved for small companies that are certified with Broward County,” she said.
Getting certified is easy and free. “It is a fairly straightforward process and our office is available to assist you with the application. And all of our services and educational programs are also free,” Feliciano said.
People who are unable to participate in Thursday’s workshop can call the office for advice and additional resources, or find information on future events at broward.org/EconDev.
Other workshops include:
“Access to resources during the pandemic,” Sept. 28, with representatives of the city, Facebook and various agencies who will talk about how to access resources for their businesses during the pandemic.
“How to fill out the certification application,” Sept. 29.
“Projects with Broward County,” Oct. 1. A summary of all budget approved projects for 2021.
“How to work with the government,” Oct. 6. Feliciano will be participating in the event “The State of Hispanic of South Florida,” where she will explain exclusively for the Hispanic community, how to work with the government.
To learn more about the Broward County Office of Small Business and Economic Development and to register for workshops, call 954-357-6400 or visit Broward.org/EconDev.


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Can Facebook Crack the CPG Market?
Can Facebook crack the consumer-packaged-goods ad market? If so, it could hold the key to the social network's ultimate success as an advertising medium.
CPG accounted for 12.5% of measured ad spending in 2011, as measured by Kantar Media. But while there are no publicly available data on how much CPG spends on Facebook, the industry likely punches well below its weight there.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau estimated CPG spent only 5% of all outlays on digital advertising in the first half of 2012, and its digital spending rose only 4% compared with 14% growth overall. ComScore studies in recent years have found the CPG industry spends much more than any others on "socially enabled" digital ads that seek to direct users to their Facebook fan pages. But those ads are distributed outside Facebook, and ComScore data in 2011 suggested CPGs actually allocated less of their digital spending to Facebook than advertisers generally.
In an effort to build its credibility with the highly analytical industry, Facebook held its first CPG Summit in New York Jan. 17. And while Advertising Age got access only to the final portions of the summit, it clearly showcased some of Facebook's growing analytical capabilities and new Global Head of CPG Marketing Erin Hunter, a veteran of Procter & Gamble Co. and ComScore who came to Facebook four months ago.
She's one of several recently hired vertical chiefs at Facebook in industries that also include automotive, financial services, gaming, retail, eCommerce, technology, telecom and travel.The CPG Summit followed a recent event for financial services, with two more CPG events set for next month in London and Hamburg and additional industry events the next six months for travel, ecommerce, retail and gaming.
Just because financial services and CPG came first doesn't mean they're the most important, said Facebook spokesman Adam Isserlis, who said it was more scheduling logistics. That said, he noted that CPG represents 45 of the top 100 global advertisers and 35 of the top 100 in the U.S.
So Facebook is out to prove itself, and Mr. Isserlis noted that across more than 60 studies of offline sales lift from Facebook campaigns for CPG brands, 70% of cases showed a return of three times or greater in sales per advertising dollar spent.
Among other things, Facebook used the event to showcase its "Custom Audiences" program rolled out last fall, which lets marketers upload their customer-relationship-management databases to target messages to their consumers on Facebook by, for example, matching up email addresses. Examples included targeting Facebook ads on a timed basis for "Saturday shoppers" or people at the midpoint of their pet-food purchase cycles.
Such targeting is possible through the CPG companies' own databases, which often include information culled from data on offline shopping patterns or promotion redemptions, "all in a privacy-sensitive and compliant way," Mr. Isserlis said.
Up to now, Facebook's relations with advertisers -- in and outside CPG -- have been mixed.
Publicly, most CPG and other advertisers have lauded the social network and its potential as an advertising vehicle, including such major advertisers and client advisory board members as executives of Unilever, Procter & Gamble Co. and their biggest customer, Walmart. The social network reports fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday -- news that people will be looking for.
Privately, another executive of a large CPG advertiser recently noted, with a combination of dismay and understanding the business realities, a recent shift in Facebook representatives from encouraging more frequent communication with brand fans to encouraging fewer posts and saying the only way to ensure reaching those fans is buying Sponsored Stories.
Also privately, the CMO of another company last year described a meeting between several large advertisers across industry verticals with a Facebook executive, whom the CMO described as arrogant, ill informed about advertisers and essentially asking them to fund experiments toward Facebook developing a business model.
That's not, of course, the impression Facebook is trying to achieve with the new round of marketer summits.
"It's very important to us to talk to our clients in a voice they can relate to," Ms. Hunter said. "We moved toward vertical solutions and talking to marketers with someone who has experience in the industry. ...Everything we launch will have a vertical lens when we talk to clients about it."
And the CPG marketers appeared to find value in the experience. Almost all the 170 attendees stayed until well into the 6 p.m. cocktail hour.
"I think the attitude is what matters, and they have that willingness to improve," said Reckitt Benckiser Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer Laurent Faracci, one of the presenters and attendees at the summit. "We have that willingness to improve too."
That means, he said, "being willing to do great things together with the right investments, which means from our side some media spending, because that's what it's all about."
He said he's learned that that internal concerns about RB advertising on Facebook being disruptive or unwanted by users aren't well founded. "If you're respectful of the platform," he said, "any category is worth sharing."


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Startup’s mobile payment wallet uses facial recognition and lets consumers pay before entering a store.
Robert McGarvey's column this time focuses on Google and Apple and wither goes the digital wallet.
All eyes remain on Apple (and its coming new iPhone) and Google as the mobile wallet saga continues.
San Antonio credit union picks Oregon mobile technology provider.
Hungry? No cash in your pocket? Not a problem if you were an employee at SEFCU, the $2.4 billion upstate New York credit union, during an ambitious pilot it ran last summer and fall to test an FIS mobile wallet product at Zia Maria’s Cafe at the SEFCU corporate headquarters...


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Egyptians apparently liked it hot when it came to hair, a la Marilyn Monroe.
Ancient Egyptians Styled Hair Like ‘Marilyn Monroe and Rihanna’
By Erin Donnelly
08/29/11 at 11:35 AM
"Mummy knows best!We may not walk like the Egyptians, but we apparently coif like them, with new research on mummies revealing the use of hair gel and curling tongs, the Telegraph reports.
The Journal of Archaeological Science has published the study from The University of Manchester's KNH Center of Biomedical Egyptology, which analyzed hair samples from 18 male and female mummies aged 4 to 58.
The research shows that Cleopatra wasn’t the only one with a knack for beauty. Scientists discovered the presence of a gel-like fatty substance “being used to hold hair in place,” as well as an alluring array of ’dos that wouldn't be out of place on a modern-day red carpet.
“There was a variety of hair styles and cuts—some of the mummies had really beautiful curled hair,” team leader Dr. Natalie McCreesh told the paper. “Under the microscope we could see the fat was used specifically on the curls, to hold them in place—just like people would now.
“One of the mummies had quite short hair and we joked she looked like Marilyn Monroe. Some others had longer curly hair, a little bit like Rihanna. Some of the younger men had their hair parted and slicked down with the product.”
What, no Bieber bowl cut? The fatty product was found on nine of the mummies (which date back 2,300 to 3,500 years), and contained palmitic and stearic acids.
“It’s reasonable to think that some people would have styled their hair and others wouldn’t—just like today,” adds Dr. McCreesh. “Because some of them were preserved naturally, we can see that they used it in everyday life as well as when they were being preserved in death.
“It probably wouldn’t have been the very poorest, but it certainly wasn’t restricted to just pharaohs or high nobility—ordinary people used it too. It’s absolutely fascinating. You can almost imagine them tending their hair and setting their curls, just like we might today.”
Researchers also found that the ancient Egyptians braided in hair extensions to lengthen their manes. Hey, nobody said being a Sphinx minx was easy ..."


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Apple introduced a brand new inexperienced initiative to take away carbon dioxide from the environment.
Apple in collaboration with the Conservation Worldwide and Goldman Sachs has introduced a brand new inexperienced initiative to take away carbon dioxide from the environment. The “Restore Fund” value $200 million will take away at the very least 1 million metric tons of CO2 yearly from the environment that’s equal to the quantity of gasoline utilized by 2000,000 autos.
The initiative can even give you a viable monetary mannequin that may assist scale up funding for the restoration of forests. Apple can also be receiving a push from suppliers to make use of renewable and sustainable materials for packaging its electronics merchandise.
Apple in its inexperienced initiatives up to now, claims that it has used 100 per cent responsibly sourced fibre in its packaging and as per the corporate it has already improved the administration of greater than 1,000,000 acres of forest land globally.
Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vp of Setting Coverage stated that with the “Restore Fund” Apple thrives to create a fund that generates measurable carbon impression and generated monetary return and drive a broader change in future and encourage funding in carbon elimination from the world. Calling nature one of the best software to take away carbon from the environment she urged different corporations to contribute their sources to guard the important ecosystem.
Apple aspires to change into carbon impartial throughout its whole worth chain by 2030 by instantly eliminating 75 per cent of the emissions from its provide chain and merchandise by the requisite time. With the Restore fund, Apple desires to fulfill its remaining 25 per cent goal by eradicating carbon dioxide from the environment.
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The development of technology is moving at lightning speeds and is setting new trends from quite some time. Technology when affiliated with smartphones makes it fantastic in every division. Companies that of Apple, HTC and Samsung have come up with great handsets in the past year 2011 and have promised to release some masterpieces for 2012.
Apple, after the successful launch of the iPhone 4S that is doing amazingly well, are planning to release the new iPhone 5 in the month of June. Similarly, a new Samsung Galaxy phone called the Galaxy S3 is said to set high standards in the mobile industry, giving iPhone 5 a hard time. Lets take a look at news and updates on the new Samsung Galaxy phone.
New Samsung Galaxy Phone To Set High Standards
One thing is crystal clear that due to the high competition between mobile manufacturers, everyone is trying their level best to bring out handsets better than others. The new Samsung Galaxy phone which is said to be named S3 is the elder brother of the Galaxy S2. Samsung have affiliated themselves with Microsoft & Google to release operating systems that of Windows Phone and Android. Users have enjoyed the combination of technology with the richness of the interface a lot.
Updates on the new Samsung Galaxy 3 from leaked sources are that, it is said to be released on 22nd May 2012 in UK, however this is not an official announcement by Samsung but it is predicted that the date might be accurate. The phone is said to inherit the new operating system that of Android v4.0 called Ice Cream Sandwich. Previously phones that of Samsung Galaxy Nexus, HTC One X and S carried the new opearating system.
New Samsung Galaxy – Probable Features
The new Samsung Galaxy S3 will have a faster processor than the S2 setting new standards in terms of speed. Since Samsung has officially revealed the new Exynos 4212 chipset with a dual-core ARM9 (which is reported to be 30% more efficient than the processor running in Galaxy S2 and also the Exynos 5250 with up-to 2GHz dual-core processor (mainly designed for maximum resolution used in tablets) could be used for the new Samsung Galaxy S3 processor.
There is no information apparently on its memory specification but is expected to be greater than that of S2. Leaked information from BGR has reported that the new Samsung Galaxy will have a 4.8 inches widescreen, Full HD 1080 pixel resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio (Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors).
According to a leaked report on Reddit and Gsmarena.com this new samsung galaxy phone may come with a powerful 12MP camera with flat into the back of the device having no bump as found on the old Galaxy S2, thus giving a smooth and elegant look. We cannot predict anything yet, since all the information are leaked and are unofficial. For those who do not want to wait can get hold of the company’s Samsung Galaxy S2 which has already been successful in the market.


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People generally get really upset at this, calling it price gouging. I don't understand why: wouldn't you rather go to the store and find that bottled water was available if you were willing to pay enough than that they were out? Worse, this keeps sellers from spending more to make more water available:
"Businesses and individuals cannot and should not take advantage of this public emergency to unfairly charge consumers far beyond what they would typically charge for water. Our office will be sending out inspectors to review reports of price gouging and also conduct spot-checks of local businesses ..."If it were legal to charge more for water in an emergency they could deal with their driver shortage by offering to pay big overtime bonuses to work on a Sunday. Or would that be price gouging by the drivers?
Bottled water manufacturers said they were increasing production, but that their ability to supply the region was limited by a shortage of drivers on Sunday. -- Boston Globe
 BIDA just decided not to do this for the upcoming Spark in the Dark. So if you show up late, there probably won't be room. I'll not be there; I'm playing the Cotuit dance that evening.
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Lakeside Village, on White Rose Way, is searching for the ‘next big thing’ in catering.
It offers growing independent catering companies a chance to join the centre, that attracted more than 1.8 million people to it last year alone.
John Magee, centre manager at Lakeside Village, said that they are seeking independent caterers who are ready to take the next step in their business growth.
He added: “We want something different for our shoppers, something that gets people talking and, at the same time, gives us the chance to support a growing business that could be the next big thing in Yorkshire’s thriving independent food scene.
“Our centre is going through a really exciting time at present, as more and more big brands arrive here.
“In the last six months alone we’ve welcomed Ben Sherman, The Body Shop and Bon Marche.
“We’re confident that the addition of a quirky, independent food outlet on site will enhance people’s experience of Lakeside Village even further.”
As part of its ‘Find our Foodie’ campaign, the centre is asking its visiting shoppers to nominate their favourite independent food outlets via social media, as well as urging caterers to apply to the centre directly, themselves, if they are interested in a new opportunity.
In return, the centre is offering all-inclusive, preferable rates, with a minimum of 12 months’ terms and no additional costs.
John added: “Our criteria is very broad at this stage.
“Ideally the food and drink outlet we select will have their own self-contained unit .
“It will have an option to sit customers down, be able to cater for our customers year-round and, of course, have a proven track record in delivering something that really stands out from the crowd.”
Lakeside Village, operated by asset managers Realm, is home to more than 45 stores currently.
These include top names M&S Outlet, Clarks and Next Outlet, offering up to 60 per cent off on goods, all year round.
Customers can nominate food outlets via Lakeside Village’s Facebook or Twitter pages, using #FindourFoodie.
Caterers applying to the centre themselves can do so by visiting;
Lakeside Village management team will then contact selected applicants directly to take things to the next stage.


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Last week we heard that Google and Audi would announce a new Android based in car system at CES, Google has announced the Open Automotive Alliance, which also included Honda and General Motors and Hyundai.
As well as the vehicle manufacturers, the Open Automotive Alliance also includes companies like NVIDIA, and the companies aim to bring a new Android based in car system to your car.
Audi, GM, Google, Honda, Hyundai and NVIDIA have joined together to form the Open Automotive Alliance (OAA), a global alliance of technology and auto industry leaders committed to bringing the Android platform to cars starting in 2014. The OAA is dedicated to a common platform that will drive innovation, and make technology in the car safer and more intuitive for everyone.
The OAA is aimed at accelerating auto innovation with an approach that offers openness, customization and scale, key tenets that have already made Android a familiar part of millions of people’s lives. This open development model and common platform will allow automakers to more easily bring cutting-edge technology to their drivers, and create new opportunities for developers to deliver powerful experiences for drivers and passengers in a safe and scalable way.
Apple has already teamed up with a number of manufacturers like BMW, Mini and more to bring their iOS mobile OS to you vehicle.
It will be interesting to see what Google and Audi and the other manufacturers come up with to bring Android to the car, and the first vehicles from the various manufacturers with Android integration will be launching this year.
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This week, country superstar and American Red Cross spokesman, Trace Adkins, visited Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood, CA to reveal a new partnership between Hard Rock and the American Red Cross and Hard Rock’s limited-edition Red Cross pin.
Hard Rock’s limited-edition pin features the globally recognized Red Cross logo embedded in Hard Rock’s signature guitar. It will be available online at www.hardrock.com, as well as in US cafe, hotel and casino locations, with 15% of the retail price benefiting the American Red Cross.
On June 14, the American Red Cross, in partnership with Nexcare Bandages and supermodel Niki Taylor, will celebrate World Blood Donor Day to raise awareness about the ongoing need for blood and platelets.
From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Orlando brought together some of Broadway’s biggest stars to support the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida, Hope and Help Center and Zebra Coalition.


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Nissan escalates pickup truck wars with longer warranty
In the hyper-competitive pickup truck wars, Nissan hopes it has a new weapon -– a longer warranty.
Hoping to give its new pickups a boost, the Japanese automaker announced Monday that its Titan and Titan XD full-size trucks will have five-year or 100,000-mile bumper-to-bumper warranties. That's two years better than most of Nissan's major competitors for full-size pickups.
Titan needs the help as its full line of new pickups are about come to market. Nissan sold only 1,143 Titans last month, the lowest number among major makers in the full-size category. Ford led with 65,657 F-Series pickups, Chevrolet sold 54,116 Silverados and Fiat Chrysler's Ram division moved 39,827 trucks, Autodata reports. Even Toyota, with its Tundra, sold 10,474 of them.
With pickups carrying some of the highest profit margins in the auto industry, automakers pay careful attention to their market shares in the sector.
Titan is one of the newest pickup designs in the market. New models usually sell the fastest, so that should give Nissan a nice sales bump when all of their Titan models are available at dealers. The automaker has touted its new Titan as having breakthrough styling, and the XD version has a powerful diesel engine, a big selling point for those who use their truck for towing or heavy loads.
All Titan and Titan XD V-8 gas-powered models as well as diesel and V-8 gas-powered 2017 Titan XD models will be covered by the new warranty. The 2017 Titans and Titan XDs will begin arriving at Nissan dealerships nationwide later this month.
While automakers often offer big discounts to sell trucks that won't move off the lot, Nissan is hoping a longer warranty could help sway buyers.
“We think that extending the same coverage to our full-size pickups, whether used for professional or commercial use, is a game changer in the segment,” said Nissan's Fred Diaz.
Rivals responded by noting how long their trucks last. Ford said it has more pickups that have gone 250,000 than any other maker. Ram said it has "the unique distinction of being America’s longest-lasting pickups."
The warranty announcement came alongside the release of U.S. pricing for 2017 Titans, from the Titan Crew Cab S 4x2, which is listed at $34,780. The Titan SV Crew Cab 4x4 comes in at a pricier $40,700 and the Titan Platinum Reserve Crew Cab 4x4 tops the list at $55,400.
Nissan has played the warranty card before. In June 2014, it initiated “America’s Best Commercial Van Warranty,” which was intended to demonstrate the company’s confidence in its light commercial vehicle lineup. The automaker hopes the same confidence will boost demand for their expanding line of trucks.


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TOKYO -- For seven days next July, before Japan kicks off the Summer Olympics, Tokyo will let dozens of driverless vehicles roam freely around the competition venues in the city’s waterfront area to promote the nascent technology.
As many as 100 self-driving cars will ferry up to 7,000 passengers in the week starting July 6, said Seigo Kuzumaki, director for the Japanese government’s autonomous-vehicle program. Carmakers including Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. as well as parts manufacturers and startups are participating, he said.
Toyota already has been showcasing some of the mobility technologies it will demonstrate next year at the Olympics.
The largest driverless-vehicle trial in Japan so far is meant to promote the country’s strengths in the field. From next month through 2022, Japan will run a slew of tests on public roads in Tokyo, involving cars from 28 companies and institutions. The country has a goal for fully autonomous vehicles to start selling in 2025.
Also during the sporting event, more than a dozen Toyota robot vehicles will run a continuous loop within the Olympic and Paralympic Village to shuttle athletes and staff. Another self-driving Toyota vehicle, known as Concept-i and packed with artificial-intelligence technology, will accompany torch relay runners.


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Globacom, a telecommunications company, has relaunched its Glo Rewards Cashtoken programme, offering subscribers another chance to win cash prizes and other items.
The company said in a statement on Wednesday that the new season was unveiled to give opportunity to more Glo subscribers and other Nigerians.
“Those who missed out on prizes in the first season can win cash prizes and other amazing items,” it said. “Subscribers stand a chance to win between N5,000 and N100 million in weekly lottery draws.”
According to the statement, cashtoken will be earned by subscribers on every N1,000 cumulative recharge within a calendar month, and each cashtoken will give an assured cashback.
It said: “To enroll for GloRewards, subscribers will dial *301*8# and start recharging to earn cashtokens. The assured cashback is N8, and they have a chance to win between N5,000 and N100m weekly in grand raffle draws. Every week, customers will also get a chance to win Gloworld Gift vouchers worth N10,000, Samsung A05 Phones and Samsung A54 smartphones.”
It said subscribers would be able to view and redeem their cashtokens by dialing *6700# to purchase airtime/data, pay electricity bills, pay cable television bills or make other payments. “They can also transfer their accumulated cashtokens to the bank and cash out the equivalent value.”
The company said some of the winners in the previous editions included William Ubi, a Cross River State University civil engineering student, who took home N200,000; Anthony Iyemi, a resident of Warri, who took home N100,000; and Mohammed Tijani, a farmer from Kaduna, who won N200,000.


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Guwahati, June 23 (NKTV): In a proud moment for Assam, the world’s first genetically modified (GM) rubber plant was planted on the outskirts of Guwahati by the Chairman and Executive Director of the Rubber Board KN Raghavan on Tuesday. Planted at Sarutari Research Farm, the plant was developed at the Kerala-based Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII).
Raghavan said that the genetically modified rubber plant is the first of its kind developed and exclusively for this region. “It is expected to grow well under the climatic conditions of the mountainous northeastern region” Raghavan added.
The Chairman said that the GM rubber plant would be a game-changer in natural rubber cultivation in India, with additional copies of the gene MnSOD (manganese-containing superoxide dismutase) inserted in it.
“The GM rubber plant is expected to tide over the severe cold conditions during winter, which is a major factor affecting the growth of young rubber plants. Natural rubber is a native of warm humid Amazon forests and it is not naturally suited for the cold conditions in this part of the country” he said.
He further explained that the crop is presently planted on experimental level following all mandatory bio-safety measures applicable to field trials involving GM crops.
A senior Rubber Board official said that seven northeastern states, especially Tripura and Assam, are cultivating rubber in 1,90,000 hectares of land annually producing 1,11,700 tonne natural rubber.


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In light of this week's reports that banks were hacked, a cybersecurity expert rates the best and worst industries at protecting your online data.» Read More
Apple unveiled a new MacBook Pro with retina display at it's Worldwide Developers Conference Monday.
Thousands of domain names are about to be released that are being snapped up by firms and brands looking to make their mark online, and on their URL.
Apple's annual developer conference is usually a launching pad for its next big thing — iPhones, iClouds, etc. Here's the big thing at this year's conference.
No customer accounts appear to have been damaged following a cyber attack on professional social networking website Linkedin, its co-founder and executive chairman Reid Hoffman told CNBC on Friday.
Whether cybercrime is driven by hacktivists or cyber gangs targeting brokerage firms, two things are for certain: these groups have changed the reality of security for businesses, and understanding them is critical to taking them down.
Video ads and premium accounts for users are just a couple of ways the new start-up Airtime is floating as potential ideas to generate revenue, co-founder Sean Parker said in an interview with CNBC.
Foursquare is expected to announce an overhaul of its application — one that Dennis Crowley, the chief executive and one of the founders, says is the truest vision of Foursquare, turning it into a recommendation service that could rival sites like Yelp.
HTC, the world’s No. 5 smartphone maker by shipments, is fast losing its “relevance” in a highly competitive market, as cheaper alternatives pose a threat to its growth in China, technology analysts tell CNBC.
Groupon says it is no longer accepting new adult entertainment merchants as customers.
Google Maps will soon offer higher-quality 3-D maps in Google Earth, Google announced at an event in San Francisco Wednesday morning.
Recently, Apple has been phasing Google Maps out — likely in anticipation of the debut of its rumored maps app.
It was only a matter of time before someone decided to put two Instagram photos side-by-side and ask the age-old question: which one is more appealing? That's exactly the premise behind prurient new site Hotstagram.
Airtime, the secretive social-video site created by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, went live today. Literally. Some are calling it Silicon Valley's Next Big Startup.
Turkey’s economy, which grew by a stellar 8.5 percent last year, will manage to achieve a soft landing this year despite rising external risks such as the euro zone debt crisis, the country’s finance minister Mehmet Simsek told CNBC on Tuesday.
Google is purchasing chat service Meebo. Founded in 2005, Meebo offers products like the Meebo Bar — which can be embedded onto third-party websites, letting users connect without leaving the site.
Sending lascivious tweets about their appearance from the official company account. Which is precisely what Taiwanese hardware maker ASUS has just done.
Exxon Mobil will continue to be robust and will maintain record levels of investment, valued at $27 billion in 2011, in the next couple of years despite the downturn in global oil demand and fluctuations in prices, Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil, told CNBC on Tuesday.
Alan Bowman, Vice President, Asia Pacific and Greater China, Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division says Microsoft's Smartglass, a multi-device sharing app opens up market for the XBOX 360.
Reshaping a time-worn narrative isn't easy. Social revolutions rarely are, especially when you're a woman trying to break into the boys' club that is Silicon Valley. But an emerging class of early-stage tech start-up executives is helping dispel the notion that there isn't a leading role for them in the male-dominated valley.
Path, a social network company founded by Dave Morin, a former Facebook employee, is one company that is keeping its focus on mobile and for good reason, according to Morin.
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When New Jersey legalized online gambling nearly a year ago, nobody knew how much revenue it would generate, and as the new era approached, in November, estimates ranged from $850 million in the first year to $30 million. Now, we have some early figures.
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, in its first five weeks online gambling generated $8.4 million in revenue. While that exceeds the most pessimistic estimates, it’s well below most estimates, and it also presents a problem for the state. That’s because, as the Journal pointed out in a previous story, New Jersey’s budget counts on $160 million by June, implying $1.1 billion of total revenue by that point.
In its new story, the Journal speculated that a good deal of that missing revenue might be blamed on credit card companies that won’t allow their customers to use those cards for gambling, including American Express (NYSE: AXP), and cards tied to JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC).
The Philadelphia Inquirer broke down the numbers further, showing that the Borgata accounted for $3.75 million of the online gambling revenue, or 44 percent. That’s a greater share of the pie than the Borgata’s in-person share, which was 22 percent in 2013, the Inquirer said. As for the games people played, the Inquirer said, overall, online poker accounted for about $2.89 million, with $4.5 million from other games, not including November action.
At the low end, the Associated Press said the Golden Nugget brought in only $179,000 from online gambling. That rate is bound to improve, however, as its online operation suffered technical glitches that delayed its launch, the report said.
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Auntie Anne’s is celebrating National Pretzel Day this year with a Buy One, Get One Free offer through the brand’s Pretzel Perks app from Friday, April 26 through Sunday, April 28, 2019.
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In order to take advantage of the offer, simply stop by any participating Auntie Anne’s location during the promotion period, and when you purchase any pretzel product, you’ll be rewarded with your choice of one free Original or Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel by showing the QR code found here. The deal will also be available in the Pretzel Perks app for account users.
As an added bonus, Auntie Anne’s fans can also get $25 off $100 online catering orders by using promo code NPD25 at checkout, through Friday, April 26.
Additionally, Auntie Anne’s is also launching a shower curtain as part of its “For the Love of Pretzels” Threadless collection. Auntie Anne’s Threadless collection donates 100 per cent of sales to their charity partner, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation.
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Following the roll-out of significant updates for its users, leading payments and cryptocurrency platform, Crypto.com has received a major boost in the value of its token, CRO, within the last 7-days.
The token has been up 24% on the weekly chart, which saw CRO dethroning both Chainlink’s LINK and Stellar’s XLM in CoinMarketCap’s ranking. At the time of writing, Crypto.com coin is ranked 12th largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $1,728,545,995, followed by XLM (market cap: $1,676,841,633) and LINK (market cap: $1,558,321,85) in the 13 and 14 positions respectively.
Stellar’s trade volume in the last 24 hours has recorded a decrease of 0.24%, while LINK is up by 1.60%. Interestingly, CRO has also been up by 3.93% in the last 24 hours boasting of a daily trading volume of $60,068,754 according to data on CMC. The price of CRO increased from $0.08 to $0.10, at press time.
What’s behind the surge in the price of CRO?
Notably, the rapid growth of CRO tokens can be attributed to Crypto.com’s remarkable milestones throughout May.
The firm recently announced that it had become the largest crypto card provider in the world via the shipping of its MCO Visa debit cards to 31 countries in Europe, a move made to accelerate the acceptance of cryptocurrency conversion around the world.
As reported, the MCO debit card, which supports both crypto and fiat top-ups, was also launched in the United States to support the company’s objective of boosting the adoption of crypto assets.
Other significant milestones achieved by the firm last month that also contributed to the spike in CRO tokens include the increase in the number of users from one million to two million in just six months, as well as the introduction of its non-custodial wallet.
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Sales are booming at Subaru of America but the 2015 Subaru BRZ is not selling like the rest of the Japanese automaker's lineup. Subaru had to revise their sales forecast from 460,000 vehicles to 500,000 for 2014 because of strong performance across all product lines except one, the BRZ sports coupe. It seems that BRZ sales are slipping and the two-door coupe is going backwards. Sales for the month of August saw sales of the sporty BRZ drop 17.05 percent from the previous month to date numbers.
What’s going on with BRZ?
Year to date, Subaru BRZ sales are up just 1.72 percent, when the performance WRX/STI sales are up a whopping 36.34 percent. Driving enthusiasts are looking for more performance and the new-generation WRX STI gives them what they are looking for. BRZ came on the scene in 2012 with a sporty attitude with its boxer engine and great driving dynamics. It comes with a 200 horsepower naturally aspirated Subaru boxer engine that sits low in the chassis. It comes with a low center of gravity which makes it perform great in the corners.
What does BRZ need?
The Subaru BRZ has enough power to maneuver in normal highway driving, but driving enthusiasts want more than just average from their sports cars. The BRZ sports coupe is an agile performer and can compete with some of the best vintage sports cars of the past like the Mazda RX-7, Datsun 240Z and Porsche 944. The BRZ also competes with current sports cars like the Hyundai Genesis Coupe and Mazda MX-5 Miata. So why are sale waining for BRZ?
BRZ needs to be upgraded
Performance fans have been asking for a BRZ turbocharged model since the sports car hit the market back in 2012. BRZ, now in its 4th year of production needs to be upgraded with new engine options like a turbo with more power than the current 200 horsepower models. Performance fans are buying the BRZ and buying engine upgrades, but Subaru could help by letting Subaru Tecnica International (STI) make a true performance model.
The 2015 BRZ’s 2.0-liter, four-cylinder engine features 200 horsepower and 151 pound-feet of torque. BRZ comes standard with a close ratio six-speed manual transmission. With the manual, BRZ sprints from 0-60 mph in 6.8 seconds, while the automatic version is quite a bit slower, clocked at 7.9 seconds over the same distance. For a rear-drive sports car, that’s slow for a vehicle that only weights in at 2,800 pounds.
Sales of the 2015 Subaru BRZ are down and it’s a good indication that Subaru needs to upgrade the current BRZ sports coupe with a new BRZ STI performance model. Buyers would line up to get one.
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In order to ease pressures on fleet operators, hauliers, freight forwarders and other businesses in the transport and logistics sector, the Chancellor must introduce transitional in the Budget during the introduction of Clean Air Zones (CAZs).
Not long left now
There are now only a few months until the start date for the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in London, and further air quality zones are predicted to roll out across the country.
Charges may apply
Some of the ULEZ will be charged, meaning that drivers who enter the zone in vehicles that don’t meet the specified environmental standards will be forced to pay a fee. However, the uncertainty surrounding the nature of the restrictions in each zone is making it difficult for fleet operators and other transport businesses to plan-ahead. With many hoping for some level of transitional relief to provide much-needed support for businesses as they switch to greener vehicles.
Restrictions don’t look cohesive in nature
ULEZ and the CAZ are perfectly sound propositions in theory. However, with the zones being devised and implemented by local authorities, this has led to a lack of cohesion with regards to the precise nature of the restrictions and charges to be imposed.
The need for Transitional relief
Many feel it is imperative that the Chancellor considers the investment that a number of businesses have made in their fleets and their expected commercial lifespan.
Some businesses are leasing vehicles, under agreements that may not end for years and may not be able to justify investment in new motors. The Chancellor must acknowledge the significant financial and administrative strain this will cause businesses in the sector and announce a transitional relief scheme to provide financial support.
Clean air zones are however damaging the market for second-hand vehicles due to the tightening emissions and fuel standards, resulting in no body investing in old motors anymore.
What else could be done?
The Chancellor could also provide incentives, such as additional tax credits, to encourage use of greener vehicles. However, this may be wishful thinking, considering the Government has just lowered the plug-in car grant for owners of electric cars.
Businesses in the sector understand the importance of protecting air quality and reducing CO2 emissions and are willing to make the transition to greener vehicles. However, rising costs, increasing administration and low operating margins mean that they urgently need support.


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It's that time of year again - one of the most prestigious photo competitions has announced its shortlist. The World Photography Organisation today reveals contenders for the Professional, Open and Youth categories of the 2013 Sony World Photography awards.
We've selected our favourites from the Open category which features amateur photographers. The choice hasn't been an easy one - there were a whopping 122,000 entries - and the winner will be announced in March. Which one is your favourite?


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Scott Mushkin, CEO of New Canaan, Conn.-based research firm R5 Capital has published a report that frankly is not going to make a lot of people happy in Bentonville.
The new R5 report, on Walmart is titled Yes, It's That Bad. The report includes a series of photos Mushkin took at three Walmart supercenters in Pennsylvania on March 25. The images show empty meat cases, piles of unattended cardboard boxes from the back of the store crowding aisles, and an array of mostly empty center-store shelves. He decided to visit more than 50 stores across the country starting in January of this year. His report comes on the heels of Walmart’s Annual Investors Meeting at which CEO Doug McMillion was quoted as saying that
"Our first priority is to continue to earn [customers'] business when it's time [for] the stock-up trip, to be the best and first place they shop. To be fair, we are still in the midst of the pandemic and no retailer I know is operating at 100%. Mushkin pointed out some good news in the report as well: updated store facades—fresh paint, updated signage, well-stocked produce displays just inside store entrances. But he also points out that in the stores he visited he found unattended cardboard boxes from the back of the store crowding aisles and a collection of mostly empty center-store shelves. Walmart has led the industry for many years in many ways and as a result of their leadership and investments has I would argue made the nation’s supermarkets more efficient and profitable. Yes, I am a fan of McMillion and Walmart and frankly hope and urge Mushkin to visit the same stores post-pandemic and issue another report with those findings.


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Photobox ‘switched off’ its marketing spend to figure out what was working
Photobox Group has seen 10 consecutive years of sales growth, made a number acquisitions and moved into a swanky new £20m London HQ. But its flagship brand’s marketing is still in a period of flux as it experiments with new channels and rethinks old strategies.
The personalised gifting company is housed alongside sister companies Moonpig, Hofmann and PosterXXL. It recently underwent a “hard reset” of its marketing plans, led by head of brand Jo Lavender who joined from Pinterest – where she was brand and marketing lead in the UK – last year.
Her first duty was reappraising what the brand stood for. Though “really good at selling product”, Lavender said the company realised it needed to be “fit to compete” with the best retailers in the ‘thoughtful’ gifting’ sector, like Notonthehighstreet.com, Trouva.com, and Etsy.
“We’re a product business, a tech business and a retailer,” she said. “We’ve fine-tuned and reassessed what the customer experience is that we need to deliver across the end to end picture; from the creation to purchase, the product quality to the unboxing.”
It’s also overhauled the look of the brand, bringing in a new logo and redesign of the website and app which, although early days, Lavender claimed has resulted in a 44% year-on-year growth in unprompted brand awareness and a 12% year-on-year increase in brand consideration.
The marketing strategy is now front and centre of Lavender’s focus. Swiftly after Lyst's former chief marketing officer Christian Woolfenden arrived as managing director in 2017, he took the decision to “switch off” all of its marketing spend last year to “question” what was working.
“It was a really brave decision that's allowed us to take an incredibly rigorous approach to understanding our marketing channel mix,” says Lavender.
“[We’re] turned off one channel at a time to get a sense of what's working and built it back in channel by channel, at the same time supporting that with the insight and positioning work from the brand.”
Some of the early learnings have, admittedly, been fairly obvious. For example, during peak periods in the gifting calendar like Christmas, investing in TV is vital, she says. Meanwhile, in periods where demand for personalised photo gifts is low, it finds paid social works harder.
“From both sides, brand and performance, we've ripped up what the best marketing channel mix is and are putting it back together piece by piece in a very methodical and considered way," she added.
“We're getting close to what works for us across the funnel. We've still got more channels to experiment with; display and online video is where we've got a lot more work to do.”
The end goal is to have a playbook that its agencies – in this case Who Wot Why for creative and the Specialist Works for media buying – can work against.
This is all the more important as it emerges from a challenging financial year. Despite increasing sales, the “marketing rest” and relocation to its new London headquarters resulting in an 80% fall in operating profits of last year while revenue at the Group dipped from £325m to £315m.
Though Lavender stressed it would not cut spend, it will be looking for efficiencies and will begin buying media programmatically, which usually for an e-commerce company, it hasn’t done in the past.
“We have taken some bold decision and turned off channels and invested ahead in expensive assets to get behind this brand refresh. We are not looking at marketing cuts in the coming year though we are looking at efficiencies. And we're continually reassessing that channel mix. If anything, we'll be increasing investment and the channel mix behind that.”
Lavender said that being given free rein to experiment in this way is helped by the fact that the brand is led by a number of former marketers. Alongside Woolfenden, Photobox has the former global head of growth marketing at its helm as chief executive.
“The leadership team is a mix of marketers and they understand both sides of the marketing coin. We're practicing marketing where it’s appreciated.”


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- The biggest NFT marketplace OpenSea has recently announced its partnership with Icy.tools, PROOF, and Curio to develop OpenRarity.
- OpenSea intends to stretch a helping hand in creating an open standard for the entire NFT community.
- The platforms are working towards making OpenRarity an opt-in experience for creators on OpenSea.
In a recent announcement, it has been revealed that OpenSea, the biggest NFT marketplace, has collaborated with Curio, PROOF, and Icy.tools in order to develop OpenRarity, an open standard for their community.
1/ Today we’re excited to publicly launch OpenRarity!— openrarity (@openrarity) September 14, 2022
This project is the product of many teams within the NFT ecosystem building a better system together. Below, we’ll share more about our motivations, methodology and why this all matters.https://t.co/1d2j2Jds5B
The platform did carry out an evaluation process considering different existing rarity methodologies for OpenSea and found out that ranking varied between these rarity tools. In addition, the evaluation helped in finding out that many had methodologies that were not transparent.
OpenSea intends to help in the creation of an open standard for the entire NFT community. However, they are fully aware of the fact that OpenRarity may not apply to some NFT collections, so they are making it an opt-in experience for creators on OpenSea.
What’s more to the key takeaways is the fact that they are also planning to give developers access to OpenRarity scores and rank through their API when creators have opted into OpenRarity, making this data more attainable and open.
This marks a step closer to their goal of promoting openness and transparency across the entire NFT ecosystem.
As for OpenRarity, it is a project that can be considered a product of several teams lying within the NFT ecosystem and contributing to building a better system collaboratively. The major goal of this rarity calculation standard is to build a reproducible, transparent, and objective ranking system.
The project is aimed at eliminating confusion for the creators as well as the collectors in relation to rarity scores across measurement tools. While working with other marketplaces and creators, the team managed to land on a brand new calculation method called the Information Content, along with a set of principles they believe to be a better starting point.
In order to ensure that their new calculation standard is mathematically grounded and understandable, the team is publishing their implementation via GitHub. In addition to this, it was revealed that Pudgy Penguins, PROOF, and Cool Cats NFT are going to be the first creators to opt in.


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Marvel's upcoming film Guardians of the Galaxy will be well-represented in the upcoming Disney Infinity 2.0 Marvel Super Heroes game, Disney said this week.
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Elsa Jenna Alternate reality games existed before the iPhone, using email, fake ads, and even faxes to send players on clue hunts. But thanks to the smartphone, games now include geospatial triggers and social media integration, allowing players to seamlessly interact with one another and the world around them. Even Google has gotten involved, through […]
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David Sparshott Damage control is an excruciating, highly addictive game that among my friends has destroyed relationships, rekindled others, threatened to ruin careers, sparked sexual intrigue, and caused no end of terror and laughter. It is a game for two friends, and best played drunk. The instructions are simple: 1.) Trade phones. 2.) Select a […]
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Titanfall who? The best multiplayer shooter of the year so far is a mod for a 10-year-old game, and it's free.
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Gone Home, one of the best downloadable games of 2013, gets a physical release packed with fun stuff.
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One of the first Android TV products Google announced at I/O today is a streaming set top box from Razer. Razer calls its black, puck-like device a "micro-console," and while it'll broadcast content onto your big screen, it (naturally) has a bigger focus on gaming.
Date: Monday, 23 Jun 2014 10:30
When GameSpy Technology shut down its servers in May, it left players of popular games like Crysis, Battlefield 1942, and the original Halo stranded offline. But fans are developing workarounds and setting up private hosting to keep their games going.
Date: Friday, 20 Jun 2014 10:30
This $10 indie game from Pixel Opus is, at one level, all about mastering half-circles. More than that, though, it is about achieving oneness through human connection.
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Mapco Incubator Fund launched
Mapco Group have recently launched the Africa Incubator Fund, and are actively researching areas for ethical investment opportunities on the African continent.
We are looking for ethical projects to invest in which complement the Mapco ethos. We will invest in the right business plan which is seeking to innovate in the food chain and which will help feed people.
Projects currently under consideration include:
- Fish farming in Nigeria
- Surplus mango dehydration
- Dried fruit production
We welcome enquiries and our contact details are to be found at the bottom of this page.
''Mapco has brought competition for food items which previously had been thrown away in the UK, thus helping the fishing industry in the North East of Scotland”


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Big Online Casino Group Publishes Results
One of the biggest online casino groups has published its revenue results for 2006’s first quarter, January 1 up to March 31. 888’s revenue remains high and the company shows a 42 percent year-on-year growth, with net gambling earnings at $84 million in three months alone. The online casino group’s poker revenues have increased by 95 percent to a $39 million; casino revenues are at $45 million after a 15 percent rise.
The online casino group did not have an easy time during these past three months, but still shows great profits. 888 is being accused of misconduct by several online casino affiliates. The online casino affiliates claim that 888 uses unaccepted methods to promote its online casino sites; forum spamming for instance. Adding to that, 888, along with the rest of the online casino industry, suffers badly from the United States’ legal uncertainty regarding online casino sites.
888’s US revenues deliberately dropped from 90 percent to a lowdown of 55, and 888 is aiming to decrease its US revenues even more, while targeting the European market instead. 888 is one of the largest and most successful online casino operators in the world, and moving out its businesses from the US will greatly affect the online casino industry. Time will tell what will be the reaction of other online casino groups, and what will be the future of online gambling legislation in the States.


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adidas Ultraboost DNA Given “Core Black” and “Glory Mint” Makeover
adidas has followed up its recent Star Wars collaboration with a mainline release of its classic UltraBOOST sneaker.
Taking on a “Core Black” and “Glory Mint” colorway, the running sneaker maintains its Primeknit textile upper and ensures a foot-hugging flexible fit.
The responsive BOOST midsole continues to give an energy return on every step, while the Continental rubber outsole offers a stabilising Torsion System and ultimate grip. Completing this sneaker is a yellow lace closure, alongside dashes of navy and yellow on the aforementioned upper.
While a date for the release of these in the U.S. is still to be confirmed, they’re available now across Europe via the adidas webstore, retailing at £159.95.
In other news, size? and adidas Originals have unveiled its AS 520 “Euros ‘88”, inspired by that Marco van Basten volley.
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Life magazine was iconic in its era. Time Inc. thinks the storied brand can be rebooted for a new era — as a virtual reality app.
On Tuesday, Time Inc. will unveil Life VR, a virtual reality and 360-degree video app available on both iOS and Android devices, as well as all other commercially available virtual reality headsets. Life VR will launch with three pieces of content. One is a guided, non-linear meditation experience called Lumen that leads users through breathing exercises before inviting them to plant and grow trees. It was developed with help from Walter Greenleaf, a research scientist at Stanford who specializes in medial applications for virtual reality. Another, “Defying the Nazis,” is a companion to a Ken Burns documentary of the same name premiering on PBS, meant to give viewers the experience of fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. The third, “Fast Ride,” puts viewers in the cockpit of a Mazda 787 sports car.
According to Mia Tramz, Life VR’s managing editor, at least one brand-new virtual reality experience will be added to the app every month, with projects already lined up through the end of January 2017.
“What Life was, back in its day, is what VR has the potential to become,” Tramz said.
Even though it hasn’t been a weekly magazine in nearly 10 years, Life remains one of the Time Inc.’s most indelible brands. And while the company’s long-term goal may be to have certain Time Inc. titles launch their own VR operations, all VR content developed across the Time Inc. portfolio will live on this app for now, partly for the sake of convenience, and partly because the overall point of this new kind of video — to bring people to new places — mirrors Life’s original mandate.
For the moment, a lot of Time Inc.’s virtual reality content will be produced in partnership with third parties, though as the company ramps up its capability to produce 360-degree video, it expects to make more of that in-house.
How much it will ramp up its own VR capabilities is less clear. Despite clear interest from Facebook and Snapchat, a number of questions remain for both brands and publishers, which are nervous not just about VR’s prohibitive costs but about how many people are actually watching VR content. In May, Samsung announced that 1 million people had used its virtual reality headset, Gear VR, at least once in the space of a single month; estimates for how many VR headsets could be sold within 12 months of their release hover between 15 million and 16 million.
“The hurdle for viewership is real right now. There’s no doubt about that,” Tramz said. “I think to some extent the viewership will determine where we go. But there will always be a place for big, ambitious VR projects that themselves merit being built and viewed.”
The launch comes with Time Inc. still grasping its way toward being a digitally-focused media company. Joe Ripp, the Time Inc. vet who brought the company through its spin-off from Time Warner, departed last week. It has gone through numerous rounds of layoffs, including more than 100 last month, and it cut its guidance in its most recent earnings report.
The move also adds Time Inc. to a long list of major publishers that have waded into virtual reality and related mediums like augmented reality and 360-degree video. Some of these publishers, the BBC, for example, have been tinkering with the formats long enough to have identified a few best practices. That, rather than a new revenue stream or a new distribution platform, is one of the immediate goals for Tramz and Life VR.
“I really see myself as someone building up internal knowledge,” she said. “Eventually, we’ll have a bunch of VR gurus at our titles.”
However, Fitzco’s research “has consistently shown that environmental issues and sustainability are important topics to younger skewing audiences. The focus on social, along with visual representation of data, aligns with the type of content a younger audience consumes,” she said. Joyce, on the other hand, said interest in sustainability content from advertisers and consumers “has […]
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Your customers may not know the brand GT Radial but the company’s management is banking on that changing very soon.
During the last week of March, Giti Tire USA, parent company of the GT Radial brand, invited members of the media, tire dealers and distributors out to Charlotte, North Carolina to not only tour the company’s plant just south in Richburg, South Carolina, but also to test its newest tire – The Maxtour LX.
Following the launch of its all-season counterpart in 2015, the Maxtour LX is a grand touring tire for CUVs and passenger cars, which will be available to consumers April 4. Together with the Maxtour All-Season, both tires provide 97% volume coverage of the top 20 all-season replacement tires in the U.S, according to Giti. During a ride-and-drive that debuted the Maxtour LX at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, Giti also promised that the tire would bring in money for dealers while offering the consumer a low price option compared to its competitors.
“The way we’re going to do it is to provide a great value for our dealer customers to be able to make money selling the tire, and it’s going to be sold in the marketplace at a great value to the consumer,” said Jim Mayfield, Giti’s senior vice president of sales and marketing. “So, we get our tires in the market, consumers experience them, and over time, we’ll be able to build the brand how we want to as we launch new and exciting products. We’ll build this brand in the way we believe it can be built.”
To push the tire to its limits, event attendees tested its handling and wet braking performance on an autocross course against two of the tire’s competitors in the touring segment. Professional drivers also drove participants on the speedway’s infield course to feel the tire’s characteristics at peak performance.
The tire’s key characteristics include:
- An asymetric tread pattern tuned for all-season performance;
- Full-depth sipes that provide grip throughout the life on the tire;
- Stiff outer tread blocks for enhanced handling and steering response;
- Additional shoulder channels to help with water evacuation;
- Independent shoulder grooves that improve handling;
- Harmonically optimized pitch sequencing to reduce road noise;
- And a high modulus body ply construction that absorbs road impacts for enhanced ride comfort.
In addition to providing dealers with a suite of point-of-sale materials to sell the Maxtour LX, Mayfield said Giti will also incentivize dealers for selling the tire. Its pre-launch promotion, which started Jan. 15, allowed dealers to pre-order tires and get a discount on their purchase for buying certain quantities. Starting April 1, Giti will start a sell-in promotion followed by a sell-out promotion that lasts until June 30 to further incentivize dealers to sell out of the product. Coupled with in-store marketing, Giti is also promoting the Maxtour LX in print and digital platforms including on social media.
Dealers will also be able to sell the Maxtour LX at a value price, Mayfield said. After studying the retail pricing across 12 sizes that the tire has in common with its competitors, Giti benchmarked the price of the Maxtour LX to be lower than its competitors.
“We’re in the early stages of rebuilding the GT Radial brand,” Mayfield said. “The last three years have impacted us severely in the ability to supply tires to our dealers. Those days are over. The company has figured out what our go-forward strategy is, and it’s time to start connecting to consumers again and bringing them the message of some great tires that we’ll be bringing to market and selling.”
The Maxtour LX fits 15- to 20-in. rim diameters and comes in more than 40 sizes, including key all-season growth sizes—such as 235/45R18 and 235/50R18—outside of the top 20 all-season sizes. The tire’s has a H- and V-speed rating and has a UTQG of 600 A A.
The tire also comes with a 70,000-mile tread life, 24/7 roadside assistance and a road hazard warranty. Giti says target vehicle fitments include the Honda Accord and CRV, Toyota Camry, Nissan Rogue, Ford Escape and the Chevy Traverse.
For more information, visit maxtourlx.com.


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Negotiations for the 16-country Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) are increasingly making progress towards crafting a future trade and investment deal, officials say, though whether talks will be concluded this year as previously envisioned is less clear.
The proposed RCEP agreement, for which negotiations commenced in 2012, includes 16 economies in the Asia-Pacific, comprising almost half of the global population and a third of the world’s GDP. The scope of the free trade agreement covers goods, services, and investment, as well as competition, intellectual property rights, and dispute settlement.
RCEP ministers held an Intersessional Ministerial Meeting in Cebu, Philippines, from 3-4 November, reviewing the progress made to date along with what steps may be needed to conclude the deal in the near term.
The joint statement issued by the ministers at the meeting’s close highlighted challenges facing the global economy, including slow projected growth in world trade – where the WTO figures were recently revised downward – and creeping protectionist sentiments.
They also directed their negotiators to ramp up their work in goods and services trade, as well as investment. However, the statement omits any mention of when the group is aiming to conclude the talks.
“The ministers, therefore, underscored the urgency of a swift conclusion of the RCEP negotiations as a single undertaking, which will provide a much needed boost to confidence for the global economy,” said the statement.
The most recent negotiating round, held in Tianjin, China, from 17-21 October, focused on delineating market access on trade in goods, services, and investment, as well as on rules of origin, intellectual property, competition, and e-commerce. The chapter on economic and technical cooperation was concluded, which ministers said was a promising development that could inject additional momentum for talks and help address development gaps among RCEP members.
APEC leaders to meet at the end of the month
The final RCEP negotiating round scheduled for 2016 will be held in December in Indonesia. It was not yet clear at press time whether and when they might be holding additional rounds in 2017.
However, the RCEP’s progress and prospects will likely be an area for discussion at an upcoming meeting of regional leaders later this month. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Meeting will be held on 20 November in the Peruvian city of Lima, bringing together heads of government from 21 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, and the US.
Boosting intra-regional trade has long been a high-profile topic of the APEC leaders’ meets, particularly as various different models for such regional integration have emerged over the years. The most high-profile have been the RCEP as well as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). While the two share some overlaps in membership, there are some significant differences. Most notably, the US is part of the TPP, but not RCEP. Meanwhile, China, India, and South Korea are in RCEP but not the TPP.
As in previous years, US President Barack Obama is expected to meet with fellow TPP leaders on the sidelines of the APEC gathering. The proposed trade accord is currently pending ratification by domestic legislatures, with countries such as Australia, Japan, and New Zealand currently working to push it through their respective approval procedures. (See Bridges Weekly, 7 September 2016 and 3 November 2016)
“The President will focus on his continued efforts to make the case to Congress and the American people for approval of TPP without further delay,” according to a White House statement issued last month.
However, whether this can be done before a new president takes office in January remains to be seen, with the post-election prospects for TPP looking increasingly grim following the shock victory of Republican candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday. (For more on the US election, see related story, this edition)
A full report on the APEC meeting will be made available in Bridges following the event’s conclusion.
ICTSD reporting; “RCEP countries agree to Indian demand on services, investment negotiations,” THE ECONOMIC TIMES, 8 November 2016; “RCEP: India gets Trade Ministers onboard on ‘single undertaking’ in goods and services,” 7 November 2016; “India to talk tough at RCEP trade meet,” LIVEMINT, 2 November 2016; “China-led Asia Pacific trade deal nears completion,” THE PHILIPPINE STAR, 7 November 2016; “India plans to block entry of cheap Chinese goods,” ECONOMIC TIMES, 28 October 2016; “RCEP may offer new duty concession maths for China,” PTI, 1 November 2016.


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Toyota Corolla, Etios and Innova help in achieving growth
Toyota Kirloskar Motors registered 12% growth in the month of June, thanks to their new cars – Corolla, Etios (sedan, hatchback and cross), and Innova. Now, the company looks forward to the upcoming festive season. Toyota is confident of car sales seeing a 6-7% increase by the end of this year.
Launched in late May, new Toyota Corolla has been in demand ever since. The company is trying very hard to clear pending deliveries. Compared to May, when the company delivered 548 units of new Corolla, June saw 900 units delivered. But the waiting period still stays at about 2 months.
2014 also saw Toyota India launch Etios Cross and Etios sedan Xclusive edition. The new Etios receives a new chrome grille, chrome garnish on tail lamps, headlamps and ORVMs besides Bluetooth audio system in its interiors. Etios sedan is offered in Classic Grey and Symphony Silver and Xclusive customers can take advantage of 100% road funding for seven years being offered by Toyota Financial Services. Toyota Etios Exclusive is priced at INT 5.98 lakhs for the petrol variant and INR 7.10 lakhs for the diesel variant.
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Maruti Suzuki will soon unveil a new version of its SUV - the Grand Vitara - in
India, a top official of Maruti Udyog Ltd said.
"We have launched
five new models in two-and-a-half years. We plan to launch the Grand Vitara in
the next few months,'''' MUL chief general manager Mayank Pareek told reporters
during the launch of the SX4 Sedan, Maruti''s new A3 segment car.
by the M-Series engine with 79 per cent localization, the SX4 is priced between
Rs6.31 lakh and Rs7.37 lakh (ex-showroom) in Chennai. Pareek said.
SX4 will be launched in the USA later this year, Pareek said.
the company did not have any plans to launch the diesel version of the car in
the near future.
With the Grand Vitara''s re-launch and the likely launch
of SX4 in the next month, the company will have presence across nearly all major
The SUV segment in the country is expected to see major action
with other players like Mahindra & Mahindra and Nissan.
expected to launch its new SUV, Ingenio, later this year after
the recent launched a new-look Bolero.
Nissan has also announced its
plans to launch an SUV for the Indian market.